"Spots App" was created with a React frontend and Ruby on Rails backend. Created with @jnmiele. Users can save their favorite bars and restaurants ('spots') from the Yelp API. Users can sort their saved spots by name, price and/or rating.

We created the backend of our app using Ruby on Rails. We used the Yelp API and fetch requests are done from the backend. The models are User, Restaurant and Spot. A User can have many spots, and many restaurants through spots. The Spot model is the join table between Restaurant and User and holds a user's comments about the spot.

User and Spot models required a controller as CRUD actions are available to these models and the spots_controller also handled the creation of new restaurants. We also have an auth_controller for login and a yelp_controller for calls to the Yelp API. Active Model Serializers were used to store data.

The frontend was created using React. It has nearly a dozen components with two main containers: RestaurantsContainer and SearchContainer.

RestaurantsContainer has two children: RestaurantsList and SearchContainer. We have SearchContainer as a child of RestaurantsContainer so the Search and Restaurants containers can communicate and pass props. The chils of RestaurantsList is Spot which renders the specific restaurant information with the user's comments. Spots are displayed in a tiled list with the option to click "My Notes" which toggles the view between user comments and restaurant info.

SearchContainer also has three children: SpotForm, SearchResults and SearchResult (which is a child of SearchResults). SearchContainer is responsible for handling the user's search. Information from the search form is passed to the yelp_controller on the backend and results from the API call are handled by SearchResults which passes individual restaurant info to SearchResult to be displayed. SpotForm becomes available after a user selects a restaurant to add from the search results and is responsible for collecting user comments for the restaurant. It then creates a new spot.

Our classmates at Flatiron School are always the best and most helpful, so thank you! Also thank you to our instructors Johann Kerr, Lindsey Wells and Andrew Cohn for always giving us great feedback and suggestions.